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Like Most People, You Listen To Yourself On The Phone Or An Answering Machine And You're Like, 'ugh.' So To Do Something With Just Your Voice Is Hard.

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Like Most People, You Listen To Yourself On The Phone Or An Answering Machine And You're Like, 'ugh.' So To Do Something With Just Your Voice Is Hard.

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What Surprised Me About Directing Is How Much I Loved It And How Happy I Am To Be On The Set. I Love Coming To Work In The Morning. What I Realized Is That I Never Loved Acting. I Don't Love Being In The Hair And Makeup Chair. I Don't [love] Being In Costume. To Me The Strangest Thing Is That I've Just Spent The Majority Of My Life In One Aspect Of This Business, And Because I Was Fortunate Enough To Become Successful I Never Questioned Whether I Felt At Home And Found Out Later In Life That I'm Much Happier Directing.

I Love Doing Action. And I Love Doing Dramatic Films, And I'd Never Really Been Able To Combine Them.

Refugees Have Done More For My Heart And My Spirit Than I Can Ever Express In Words.

Becoming A Parent Has Just Completely Changed Me, And Made Life So Beautiful And Given Me Such A Center And A Focus And Such Joy.

I Think If You Make A Good Movie People Walk Away Arguing.

I Eat Steamed Sea Bass And Vegetables, And I Have No Sugar, And Only Drink Soy Milk.

I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply.

Im Extremely Honest, And I Pride Myself On It. I Dont Try To Be Shocking. Im Playful, And I Know When Something Im Saying Is Maybe Shocking, But Its Just The Truth, I Never Wanted To Be Scary To People Or Upsetting To People. I Simply Want To Live The Way I Need To Live.

There Was A Time When I Was Really Going To Give Up Acting-- Right After Foxfire. I Was Trying To Find Characters With A Certain Strength And Things Going On, But I Was Always Disappointed. Wallace Was The First Thing I Did Where I Felt Their Ideas Were Better Than Mine.

I'm Just Glad I Was Able To Return To Some Of That Innocence And Beauty I Had As A Child When I Started My Own Family, And My Children Brought Me Back Some Of That Spirit.

Arabs And Mulims Are Not Terrorists.the World Should Unite Against Israel.

I Find Flaws Attractive. I Find Scars Attractive.

I Don't Need Any Crutches In Order To Concentrate. As A Child I Learned That You Must Be Ready Because I'd Be Yelled At More Than Other People And It Would Always Be My Fault. I Learned That To Be Professional Is Your Number-one Priority. The Art Comes Second. You Learn That, In Order To Give Your Best Performance, You Have To Be A Good Technician, Which Means Never Allowing Negative Influences Affect Your Performance.

It Is Not Enough To Defend Our Values At Home, In Our Newspapers And In Our Institutions. We Also Have To Defend Them In The Refugee Camps Of The Middle East, And The Ruined Ghost Towns Of Syria.

I Just Started Reading Lots Of Books And Then Called The United Nations And Asked If They Could Educate Me. The More I Got Involved, The More I Suddenly Began To Feel Useful As A Human Being And Felt Like I Was Finally Living As I Should Be.

And It Is A Very Important Thing To Be And Do, If Not The Most Important 'cause How You Interpret A Story Can Then Make The Difference. So It Is A Very Powerful Thing To Be. And When Misused, It's Very Sad.

The Great Thing About Having A Bunch Of Kids Is That They Just Remind You That You're The Person Who Takes Them To Go Poop. That's Who You Are!

Artists Raise Their Kids Differently. We Communicate To The Point Where We Probably Annoy Our Children. We Have Art Around The House, We Have Books, We Go To Plays, We Talk. Our Focus Is Art And Painting And Dress-up And Singing. It's What We Love. So I Think You Can See How Artists In Some Way Raise Other Artists.

We Talk About Orphanages, We Talk About Their Countries And Differences, And It’s A Source Of Excitement And Pride. I’ve Heard Maddox Explain To Zahara When They Are Talking About Pregnancy, ‘no, Zee, Remember, You Were In That Nice African Woman’s Belly. I Was In That Nice Cambodian Woman’.

I Want To Raise My Kids, I Want To Get Them Through Their Teenage Years. ... I Do Love My Work With The Un And With Psvi So If I Can Do More Of That And Be More Effective I Will Do Whatever I Can.

I Don't See The Point Of Doing An Interview Unless You're Going To Share The Things You Learn In Life And The Mistakes You Make. So To Admit That I'm Extremely Human And Have Done Some Dark Things I Don't Think Makes Me Unusual Or Unusually Dark. I Think It Actually Is The Right Thing To Do, And I'd Like To Think It's The Nice Thing To Do.

He's Amazing. He's A Really Dedicated Father. I Feel Very Blessed That Every Day I Wake Up And I Live With My Favourite People In The World, As Well As My Best Friend.

This Has Been My Life For Many Years; One Role Feeds The Other. It Is A Joy To Be An Artist, But It Doesn't Mean Very Much Unless That Work Is Somehow Useful In Some Way And Contributes To Others.

Yeah, But Before Anything, I Think In 6 Years Somehow I've Grown Up To Have A Beautiful Home, 2 Beautiful Stepchildren, A Beautiful Husband, My Family Is Healthy And Happy. I'm Financially Ok And I Do What I Love For A Living. That's What I Think, And I Think God, How Did I Get So Lucky.

If I Didn't Have My Films As An Outlet For All The Different Sides Of Me, I Would Probably Be Locked Up.

Never Send A Boy To Do A Woman's Job.

I Remember The Days Of Auditioning And Being Nervous And So I Really Didn't Want To Make People Have To Jump Through Hoops To Do Auditions And Be Nervous And Make Them More Nervous. I Kind Of Wanted To Hire Everybody And Find Something For Everybody.

I Had A Lovely Experience Once In Africa Working With The U.n. When A President Of A Country Met Me About Refugee Issues And Said ‘what Do You Do?’ I Said ‘i‘m An Actor.’ He Replied ‘i Heard That Was A Very Difficult Job And Might Not Be The Smartest Job To Do.’ It Was Lovely.

Cause A Little Trouble. It’s Good For You.

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